Contrariety

[Lat. contrarietas. See CONTRARY. State or quality of being contrary; opposition; disagreement; repugnance; as, contrariety of tempers. "Their religion had more than negative contrariety to virtue." Decay of Prety. -Inconsistency; some quality which is contrary to another. "He will be here, and yet he is not here; How can these contrarieties agree?"-Shaks. Con'trarily, adv . In a contrary or opposite manner. Con'trarine , n . Contrariety; opposition; capriciou ne ; as, the contrarine of a spoiled child. Contra'rio us, a. Opposite; manifesting contrariety. Contra'riously, adv. Oppositely; contrarily. "She flew contrarious in the face of God."- E . B. Browning. "Many things, having full reference To one consent, may work contrariously ."-Shaks. Con'trariwise, adv . On the contrary; oppositely; on the other hand; as, things went contrariwise to my anticipations. -Conversely; in a contrary sense or form. "Everything that acts upon the fluids, must, at the same time, act upon the solids, and contrariwise."--Arbuthnot. Con'tra-rotation, n. Opposite rotation. Con'trary, a . [Lat. contrarius , from contra , against; Fr. contraire.] Opposite; adverse; repugnant; hostile; discordant; contradictory; inconsistent; as, contrary dispositions. "But what can be contrary to the mind, Which holds all contraries in concord still?" Davies. site; adverse; as, a contradictive a umption. Contradictively, adv. By contradiction. Contradict'or, n. dicts. degree. A contradicter; one who contra Contradictorily, adv . In a contradictory manner. Contradictorine , n. Opposition in the highest Contradictory, a . Implying contradiction; affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been a erted; as, contradictory accounts. Inconsistent; opposite; contrary; as, a contradictory meaning. C. propositions ( Logic ) are the opposites of each other; the one being a mere and naked denial of the other. To be truly contradictory, they must have the same terms, and differ both in quantity and quality, - the one denying, and the other affirming , the same thing of the same subject considered in the same circumstance. -n. A proposition which denies or opposes another in all its terms; inconsistency; contrariety. "It is common to prinses to will contradictories ." - Bacon . Contradistinction, n. Distinction by opposite qualities.